A few hours ago, I started getting emails from bloggers and viewers of ON THE RECORD at 10pm about the New York Times and the Washington Post hiring (asking for motivated volunteers) help to go through Governor Sarah Palin’s emails. Apparently neither news organization has the resources or the drive to do the labor intensive “heavy lifting” of sorting through the Palin emails themselves so they are looking for help. My guess is that if this were the Pentagon papers, neither news organization would be outsourcing to others which might give you a bit of a hint as to whether they think themselves this is serious journalism or not.
At first I just read the emails from viewers and went on with my other work for tonight’s news show…but, as time marched on, the emails got more passionate. I was asked, for instance, whether the New York Times and the Washington Post were doing good journalism or on some non journalism mission (an agenda?) I was asked if the Post and the Times scoured as carefully the 2800 page health care reform bill (which is very important) for redundancy, wasted money, or even to see if it was written clearly so we could all understand it? It was also pointed out to me that AP assigned a team of fact checkers to go through Palin’s book — and I was asked if the AP had done that for the health care bill or even other politicians’ books? I don’t know.
full article at Greta Van Susteren
At first I just read the emails from viewers and went on with my other work for tonight’s news show…but, as time marched on, the emails got more passionate. I was asked, for instance, whether the New York Times and the Washington Post were doing good journalism or on some non journalism mission (an agenda?) I was asked if the Post and the Times scoured as carefully the 2800 page health care reform bill (which is very important) for redundancy, wasted money, or even to see if it was written clearly so we could all understand it? It was also pointed out to me that AP assigned a team of fact checkers to go through Palin’s book — and I was asked if the AP had done that for the health care bill or even other politicians’ books? I don’t know.
full article at Greta Van Susteren
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